[20. (1) An election petition shall be presented within 30 days after the day on which the result of the elections sought to be questioned is announced by the Returning Officer, and shall specify the ground or grounds on which the election of the respondent is questioned and shall contain a concise statement of the material facts on which the petitioner relies and set forth the full particulars of any corrupt practices that the petitioner alleges, including as full a statement as possible of the names of the parties alleged to have committed such corrupt practices and the date and place of the commission of each such practice.
(2) The petition shall be signed by the petitioner and verified in the manner laid down in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, for the verification of pleadings.
(3) The petition may be presented by any candidate in whose favour votes have been recorded and who claims in the petition to be declared elected in the room of the person whose election is questioned or by ten or more electors of the municipality or by a person who claims that his nomination paper was improperly rejected.
(4) The person whose election is questioned and where the petitioner claims that any other candidate should be declared elected in the room of such person, every unsuccessful candidate who is not a petitioner in the petition shall be made a respondent to the petition.
[(5) The petition shall be presented to the District Judge, exercising jurisdiction in the area in which, the municipality to which the election petition relate is situate :
Provided that the petition shall not be entertained by the District Judge, unless it is accompanied by a treasury challan showing that the prescribed security has been deposited. ]